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Assessment Crim3003 – Young People and the Criminal Justice System
Requirement: Create a public education poster and commentary
The assessment is a project to produce a public education poster on a topic relating to young people and the criminal justice system. Students should develop a poster and support this with a commentary on how it fits into a broader campaign of public awareness about the selected issue that requires wider public attention, and potentially reform or change.
So, imagine you are working for an organization that would like to raise awareness amongst the wider population in our society (England and Wales) about an issue or a feature associated with children/young people and criminal justice (the youth justice system).
You will need to produce a ‘poster’, supported by an associated 1000 words commentary, to explain key features. You might wish to consider one of the following topics, but you are not restricted to this – you could choose one of your own:
1. What we need to understand about the minimum age of criminal responsibility (e.g. should we change it from ten years?)
2. What we need to understand about imprisonment for girls
3. What we need to understand about how we use stop and search for children
4. What do we need to understand about how we police children and young people
5. What we need to understand about knife crime amongst children and young people
6. What we need to understand about violence amongst children and young people
7. What we need to understand about the risk-based approach to children and young people
8. What we need to understand about ethnic disproportionality in the youth justice system
9. What we need to know about X in the youth justice system [X represents your choice]
What you need to produce:
1) Poster (A4 in MS Powerpoint, or MS Word) please do not add references in the poster.
2) An associated commentary (up to 1,000 words). Please note that the commentary should be written on a word document and should be an essay like format with references.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOURE NOT DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO STOP THE ISSUE, YOURE ONLY RASING AWRENESS BY DISCUSSING IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE TOPIC CHOSEN.
